By James Sturz
Tinharé, Brazil
My Portuguese is lousy, but I could guess from the name of our ferry, Biônica de Tinharé, that we were supposed to be feeling energetic. Still, as we pulled out of Salvador for the two-hour ride to the Tinharé Archipelago in February just about everybody on-board was sleeping.
It had been a long […]

By Pickett Porterfield
The hotel stood on the corner of a dusty square where several dirt streets intersected just outside the crumbling stone walls of the medina. It was a small hotel, with three or four stuffy rooms upstairs and a mildewed bathroom on the roof. A colonnaded veranda opened out onto the street. All day […]

By Tracy Barnett
EXPRESS-NEWS TRAVEL EDITOR
06/25/2006 SUNDAY Travel 01L
MOSTAR, Bosnia-Herzegovina — A maple tree grows out the window of what was once someone’s tidy little flat on the Croatian side of Santica Street, here in the green hills of southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. The leafy limb reaches out, past the bullet holes, past the strands of […]

by Catherine Watson
The ancient pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico, is perfectly nicknamed: Called the Sky City, it commands the most exotic location of any inhabited place in the United States — the top of a 376-foot-high mesa, a natural citadel of golden rock, an island in the sky.
It’s also amazingly well-disguised.
I’d driven […]

by Michael Shapiro
“Come, I’d like to show you something,” says Jan Morris, the eminent Welsh author. We’re at the rustic Pen-y-Gwryd, a 200-year-old lodge clinging to the foothills of Mount Snowdon, Wales’ highest peak, where climbers Edmund Hillary, John Hunt, and others trained for 1953 Everest expedition. After a hearty lunch of steak pie and […]

by Jennifer Baljko
I close my eyes, hoping not to witness imminent destruction. A young child, about five years old, hovers two stories above the ground, barely balancing on top of a shaky pillar of flesh. I can’t resist. Despite the pounding in my chest, I peek through my fingers and watch another boy scamper towards […]